As I made my way through the darkly lit, cavernous rooms of the Stage48 venue, I was blinded by a variety of different sensations. Blue lights emanated from the lamps dangling from the ceiling; endless chatter could be heard amongst the masses that surrounded me, and signs abounded. Eventually, the sea of fellow humans adjourned […]
Spooner, Pete Dexter’s latest creative nonfiction masterpiece, published in 2009, 469 pp. by Grand Central Publishing, steers away from his tradition of fundamentally exposing fundamental bigotry, misanthropy and corruption. Chronicling the minutest details of his turbulent childhood, in a series of quick-shot synapses, fractals come to saturate readers’ foreheads, like milk does an animal’s bones. […]
THE SIMPLER THE INGREDIENTS—THE LESS HARMFUL A PRODUCT (minus the word ‘fragrance’ of course) We take our skin for granted. The largest organ of the human body, skin on average makes up 5% of our bodies. Each inch of skin contains 12 million cells, 250 sweat glands, 35 sebaceous glands. We breathe through […]
